10 Best Great American Bash Matches Ever

WWE.comThe Great American Bash was a show concept created by WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes. He was a key figure in the NWA in the 1980s as a top babyface as well as a booker. He came up with a lot of concepts in those days in addition to GAB, including WarGames and Starrcade. In the beginning, GAB was something the NWA did as a live event before they were doing PPVs. Then they taped it. Then in 1988 it became a regular PPV. When the NWA became WCW in 1991, the GAB name came along with it. For the list, we're looking at Great American Bash PPV matches. The GAB name actually started before the 1988 PPV since they did live events and released matches on tapes people could get, but technically they weren't PPV releases. Thanks to the always handy WWE Network, that means the shows that qualify are from WCW in 1988 to 1992 and 1995 to 2000. They didn't use the name for 1993 and 1994. In 2004, WWE brought the name back and they used it for shows over the next five years until 2008. In 2009 they called it "The Bash" for some reason. In total, there are 16 Great American Bash events that will be looked at here. It's hard to recall every single match that there's ever been as part of the Great American Bash, but as always we'll do our best to count them down. If you're wondering, Mordecai vs. Bob Holly didn't make it. Nothing Mordecai did could ever make a "best" list after all. Here are the ten best Great American Bash matches ever.